"Well....Boberto....you're Boberto to me from now on, that's your nickname...let me try to concatenate your questions and perhaps come up with some fundamentallic respurtenances for ya.

See, in Texas where I come from, we don't have a lot of grass, not the kind that grows in Kentucy, anyway, heh heh....it a climactic thing, is what the simonists tell me. Anyway, the drivers behind these decisions...and let me add I did NOT support paper trail elections as you imply; I believe it would compromise our COnstitutionally sacred liberties...but as I was saying, you have to put all the drivers on the table if yer gonna unnerstand the situation. So one of them is of course my good friend Ken and my good friend Dick. But there's another one, and I think as an educated man you may well have imagined it is power or some dumb thing. But it isn't.

"See, Boberto, Ah am not highly educated...all I know is how to lead and make the right win over the bad in this world. And in my book, that may be simple, and it may be dull, but to me it is enough. Some folks would argue that that depends what you say's good and what you say's bad, but I leave all that to the perfessors of socialism or whatever. We have a purdy good idea of what is right and anyone who supports us is included in that, because that's what we stand for.

There's one other driver you need to unnerstand before you can achieve much lucidification on these questions, Boberto. You need to unnerstand who is the president..that's me. And that is the main one. Because I call the shots. If it looks like I'm lower than a starving snake's belly in the grass to you, well in Texas that's considered a privileged position, and maybe that's just because I am. I amy be a snake, Boberto, but I am your snake, so suck it on up pal.

" I an glad we had this here little discussioning time, Boberto, an' I hope it helps you renovate your appraisal of things so you see where I am coming from. Just look for the winding marks in the dust."

GWB